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Ickx, Romain
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Beauvechain, 1860 - Lubbeek, 1953
Activity
1886 - 1915 / Courtrai
° 21.10.1860; + 11.5.1953. At first clerk, later director in Courtrai of a bank belonging to the "Société Générale". Pioneering pictorialist, specialist of foggy, marshy, and snow-covered landscapes; seascapes; views of Campine. Member of the "Société Photographique de Courtrai". Secretary of the Courtrai section of the ABP in 1897; president 1913-1916. Gave a demonstration with autochromes to his fellow members of the ABP in April 1909. Moved to Brussels in 1915. Active to a lesser extent into the 1920s. Commissioner of the Brussels section of the ABP, 1922-1926. Ickx moved to Lubbeek in the Hageland (Brabant) in 1926 and abandoned photography.
° 21.10.1860; + 11.5.1953. At first clerk, later director in Courtrai of a bank belonging to the "Société Générale". Pioneering pictorialist, specialist of foggy, marshy, and snow-covered landscapes; seascapes; views of Campine. Member of the "Société Photographique de Courtrai". Secretary of the Courtrai section of the ABP in 1897; president 1913-1916. Gave a demonstration with autochromes to his fellow members of the ABP in April 1909. Moved to Brussels in 1915. Active to a lesser extent into the 1920s. Commissioner of the Brussels section of the ABP, 1922-1926. Ickx moved to Lubbeek in the Hageland (Brabant) in 1926 and abandoned photography.
Locations
1886 - 1915 / Courtrai
Exhibitions
Courtrai, 1893 (interiors); Bruges, 1894; Courtrai, 1894; Berlin, 1896 (bronze medal); Brussels, 1896; Lille, 1896; Courtrai, 1897; Hamburg, 1897 (in ABP collective exhibit); Paris, 1897; Brussels, 1898; Hamburg, 1898; Paris, 1898; Vienna, 1898; Berlin, 1899; Ghent, 1899; Hamburg, 1899; Leipzig, 1899; Antwerp, 1900 ABP; Courtrai, 1901; Effort, 1901; Mons, 1901; Paris, 1901; Brussels, 1902; Turin, 1902; Antwerp, 1903 ABP; Ghent, 1903; Ghent ABP, 1903; Louvain, 1904; Mons, 1904; Liège, 1905; Paris, 1905; Vienna, 1905; Saint-Quentin, 1907; Ghent, 1913.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
DE KEYSER, Gilbert. "Romain Ickx: la passion du paysage", Clichés, n° 3, 1984, pp. 40-49.
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1896 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#2285
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 16.8.2017 & 13.2.2018, partly based on information supplied by Pool Andries; SFJ revised 27.2.2019 & 17.4.2019; SFJ revised 22.9.2019 & 30.10.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 22.10.2020, 1.2.2021 & 16.6.2022; SFJ revised 6.3.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 6.2.2023, 9.3.2023, 5.6.2023 & 13.11.2023; SFJ revised 26.1.2024 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght